You didn’t find The Most Excellent SuperBat cute? Even with his “Johnny Depp” cheekbones and stylish haircut?

Of course NOT! He reminds me too much of Rain!
And I voted for Stephen Colbert!!!

For all we know, Superbat might have been an otaku (in the derogatory sense) of 1980s American teen films, and chose the “most Excellent” part because his favorite films were of Bill & Ted….

From some of the notes he’s used, I expect this character to be ass-raped at worst. At best, cannon fodder?

You didn’t find The Most Excellent SuperBat cute? Even with his “Johnny Depp” cheekbones and stylish haircut?

I haven’t read the sketchbook but how do you know how that will play out? They could end up just being cannon fodder.

I 100% agree with you. And Grant has earned the benefit of the doubt 10x-over.

But it’s just that my knee jerk reaction was that of seeing a photo of a “blind date” …I didn’t find her/them “cute”; so all that it’s left is for me is to hope that she/they have a “great personality”.

Morrison mentions that teams like the Super Young Team have rock-star status whereas the real heroes go unnoticed. Reminds me of Luthor’s Infinity, Inc in 52.”

The more I hear about this book the more I love it.

Morrison mentions that teams like the Super Young Team have rock-star status whereas the real heroes go unnoticed. Reminds me of Luthor’s Infinity, Inc in 52.

I haven’t read the sketchbook but how do you know how that will play out? They could end up just being cannon fodder.

I was kind of disappointed by what I saw in DC’s Final Crisis sketchbook. For starters, I was expecting a brand new Fifth-World; not the same old Fourth World but new “ultimate/kingdom come/tangent” costumes.

I mean, I thought that the old gods were supposed to die or get chained to the great wall… so reincarnation kind of negates that; plus it makes the whole Death of the New Gods seem irrelevant and stupid.
In retrospect it looks like the New Gods were afraid of a Make-Over!

Anyways…

The introduction of the Power Rangers into the DC Universe seems kind of weird. It seemed, at least to me, that people have been complaining about the japanization of the Teen Titans for a while now. So it’s going to be odd, seeing a bunch of “Justice League Gatchaman/men” get the upper hand when the real Batman, Martian Manhunter & Flash are getting their asses handed out to them.

Oh well, if someone can pull it off, it’s Morrison; but he can run “cold” too. (A couple of his last JLA arcs weren’t that good, IMHO.)

He’s looking at from a youth culture perspective versus a national spirit perspective. There’s quite a bit of Western influence in pop music and fashion. I think of Superbat as the superhero equivalent to a japanese indie rock band. Like Cornelius, Boris or the Pizzicato Five. It’s american culture seen through a japanese perspective.

I can think of some ways DC might salvage this into something that “felt” better. If Morrison made sure the characters referred to themselves as something like Chou Shounentai and Ichiban Superbat, with kanji use as appropriate, that would feel a bit more authentic. It would be cute to have Batman or someone try to translate the team name and end up with very literal stuff like “Super Young Team” or “Most Excellent” Superbat in English. I imagine, like anime fans, everyone would just end up using the Japanese version of the name because it sounded better!